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...Ernest Piffl, managing director of the German firm Team GmbH near Stuttgart, received a three and half year prison sentence for illegally exporting thousands of centrifuge components to a Pakistani nuclear laboratory. An expert at the trial testified that Piffl had in his possession a classified drawing of a URENCO component...
Papal sorrows: church difficulties in Mexico, Russia, Spain (see p. 15); economic distress throughout the world; the deaths of Cardinals Piffl of Vienna and Van Rossum of Holland...
Died, Gustavus Frederick, Cardinal Piffl, 67, Archbishop of Vienna and Primate of Austria; of apoplexy; in Vienna...
...draped in black, lit with candles. A hundred years ago it was Schubert's death chamber. Last week it was empty save for an altar and a marble bust. Yet there, for tribute, gathered highest dignitaries to hear the solemn mass pronounced by His Eminence Gustave Frederic Cardinal Piffl, Archbishop of Vienna. Outside the little house the street was roped off, guarded by police. Only honored guests were admitted-and 500 school children who sang Schubert songs...
...words of Pope Pius were correctly quoted, they authorized Cardinal Piffl to communicate them discreetly to the press. This-there is good reason to believe-he did, making use of a correspondent who is attached to the Austrian Legation in Rome...